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Article: Seeing colonial America and writing home about it: Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia, epistolarity, and the feminine picturesque.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 2005
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Charlotte Lennox published Euphemia in 1790, forty years after she published The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself Her final novel, like her first, is set partially in colonial America, probably circa 1740. As Lennox's early twentieth-century biographer, Miriam Rossiter Small, suggests,
It is in the American scenes of Harriot Stuart and Euphemia that we
find something original with Mrs. Lennox and interesting
historically and biographically. The accurate simple accounts of a
passage up the Hudson and of life in the fort at Albany with
occasional excursions into the surrounding country are the most
valuable and unusual portions of these ...